The Las Vegas Raiders have agreed on a 4-year contract with Pete Carroll to be the club's new head coach, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Friday.
On Thursday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Carroll and the Dallas Cowboys held informal talks about the vacancy there.
Carroll, 73, spent the 2024 season out of football after a 14-year run in Seattle that saw the Seahawks win one Super Bowl, play for another, and make 10 playoff trips in his near decade-and-a-half in the Pacific Northwest.
Before that, of course, Carroll led USC to become the premier program of the 2000s, with a run from 2002-08 that saw the Trojans go 83-9 with seven straight AP top-4 finishes, seven straight Pac-10 championships, and two AP national titles.
One of three men to win a title at the college and NFL levels, he would attempt to become the first coach to win a Super Bowl with two NFL franchises. Before that, though, Carroll's first focus would to bring a reset to a franchise that hasn't won a playoff game since winning the AFC in 2002.
The Silver and Black have employed 10 head coaches since 2004; seven left with winning percentages under .400.
A Carroll hiring would be the next, biggest step in a total reset for the franchise. The Raiders have already secured Buccaneers assistant general manager John Spytek as their new GM, fending him off from reported interest in Jacksonville, where he was the preferred choice of new Jags head coach Liam Coen.
The move will also re-unite Carroll with longtime nemesis Jim Harbaugh. Carroll was Harbaugh's foil as he built Stanford into a Pac-10 power, and the two traded NFC West championships in Seattle and San Francisco from 2010-14. The Seahawks-49ers NFC Championship in January 2014 remains one of the most intense playoff games in NFL history.
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